Afghan Suicide Bombing

Source: www.moreover.com --- 34 days ago
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan : Two Suicide bombers struck inside the police headquarters in Afghanistan's southern city of Kandahar Sunday, leaving dozens of people dead and wounded, officials said. Authorities scrambled to assess the damage after the Suicide ...

Source: www.iht.com --- 28 days ago
The attack happened in the Spin Boldak district of Kandahar Province as the convoy was on its way to vaccinate people against polio. ...

Source: www.topix.com --- 33 days ago
Sep. 7 - Two Suicide bombers struck inside police headquarters in Afghanistan's southern city of Kandahar leaving dozens dead The blasts occurred hours after a Suicide bomber blew himself up in an attack on an ... ...

Source: publish.vx.roo.com --- 34 days ago
Two Suicide bombers struck inside police headquarters in Afghanistan's southern city of... 9/2008 Reuters ...

Source: www.tolerance.ca --- 28 days ago
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan - Two Afghan doctors working for the United Nations were killed in a Suicide car-bomb attack on their vehicle in southeastern Afghanistan Sunday, police said. ...

Source: www.wishtv.com --- 13 days ago
Associated Press - September 28, 2008 12:53 PM ET KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) - Killers on motorbikes have assassinated a high-ranking woman police official in Afghanistan's largest southern city... ...

Source: www.freshnews.in --- 1 day ago
A Suicide Bombing targeting one vehicle of Afghan National Army (ANA) wounded at least six people including one soldier Saturday in Uruzgan province of southern Afghanistan, said a provincial police official. Juma Gul Humat, the provincial police chief told Xinhua that it occurred at around 12.30 p.m. when a Suicide bomber with explosive materials strapped [...] ...

Source: news.bbc.co.uk --- 2 days ago
At least 15 people are killed in a Suicide Bombing at a meeting of tribal elders in a restive Pakistani region near the Afghan border. ...

Source: www.latimes.com --- 27 days ago
The Suicide Bombing of a U.N. convoy sparks an angry outcry. In a separate incident, children playing with a roadside bomb die in the resulting explosion. A Suicide bomber struck a United Nations convoy today in southern Afghanistan, killing two Afghan doctors on their way to provide polio vaccinations to children, together with their driver. ...

Source: www.huffingtonpost.com --- 20 days ago
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — Taliban militants based near the Afghan border and their al-Qaida allies are the most likely suspects behind a massive truck Bombing at Islamabad's Marriott Hotel, officials and experts said Sunday. At least 53 died in the explosion, including two U.S. Defense Department employees and the Czech ambassador. The truck sat burning and disabled at the hotel gate for at least 3 1/2 minutes as nervous guards tried to douse the flames before they, the truck and much of the hotel forecourt vanished in a fearsome fireball on Saturday night, according to dramatic surveillance footage released Sunday. The attack on the American hotel chain during Ramadan, among the deadliest terrorist strikes in Pakistan, will test the resolve of its pro-Western civilian rulers to crack down on growing violent extremism which many here blame on the country's role in the U.S.-led war on terror. While no group has claimed responsibility, the scale of the blast and its high-profile target were seen by many as the signature of media-savvy al-Qaida. Interior Ministry chief Rehman Malik said "all roads lead to FATA" in major Pakistani Suicide attacks _ referring to Federally Administered Tribal Areas, where U.S. officials worry that Osama bin Laden and al-Qaida No. 2 Ayman al-Zawahri are hiding. Mahmood Shah, a former government security chief for Pakistan's tribal areas, said that while the attack had "all the signatures" of an al-Qaida str ...

Source: www.kentucky.com --- 19 days ago
More extremist attacks shook Pakistan on Monday on the heels of a devastating bomb attack on the capital's best-known hotel. Gunmen took the Afghan consul-general hostage after killing his driver, and Suicide bombers killed nine policemen at a checkpoint in the valley of Swat, northwest of the capital. The Bombing of the deluxe Marriott hotel, in which at least 53 died and more than 260 were wounded, was still shrouded in mystery. A little known terrorist group called Fadayeen Islam - "Islamic Commandos" - took responsibility in a tape given to a Dubai-based television news channel, and claimed that there'd been 250 U.S. Marines and NATO officials at the hotel. Security experts said it was highly unlikely that American forces would be stationed at so vulnerable a location. Whoever was behind the Bombing, it appeared to signal a new phase in the militants' war against the Pakistani state, with a strong sense in the country that it's sliding toward chaos. "Pakistan is teetering on the brink," said Farzana Shaikh, an associate research fellow at the Royal Institute of International Affairs, a policy-research organization in London. "There is a weak and deeply divided government and a disorientated army with no clear strategy." Pakistan's president, Asif Ali Zardari, who took office only this month, arrived in New York Monday, where he will hold talks with President Bush Tuesday. Analysts think that Zardari will have to try to convin ...

Source: www.kentucky.com --- 35 days ago
Benazir Bhutto's widower swept Pakistan's presidential election on Saturday, offering hope for stability to a nuclear-armed country feeling intense U.S. pressure to crack down on Islamic militants. In a grim reminder of the problems awaiting Asif Ali Zardari, rescuers in the northwest dug with their hands for survivors after at least 35 people were killed in a massive Suicide Bombing. Already head of the main ruling party, Zardari becomes one of the most powerful civilian leaders in Pakistan's turbulent 61-year history. Last month, he marshaled a coalition that forced stalwart U.S. ally Pervez Musharraf to quit as head of state. However, he begins with limited goodwill among a population who recall his nickname, Mr. Ten Percent, for alleged corruption during Bhutto's two terms in office as prime minister and doubt his political vision and leadership skills. He is also untested on the international stage, where he must deal with mounting Western concern over how Taliban and al-Qaida militants have nested in the tribal belt along the Afghan border. ...

Source: www.kentucky.com --- 19 days ago
Security forces killed 10 suspected insurgents Tuesday as part of an ongoing offensive near the Afghan border aimed at denying al-Qaida and Taliban militants safe havens there. The offensive in the Bajur tribal region has won praise from U.S. officials worried about rising violence in Pakistan and Afghanistan, but has triggered retaliatory Suicide bombings elsewhere in Pakistan. Some officials believe the weekend Bombing of the Marriott Hotel that killed 53 in the capital Islamabad was in response to the operations, which the army says have left more than 700 suspected militants dead since early August. The latest casualties came early Tuesday when 10 suspected militants died in a shootout with security forces on the outskirts of Bajur's main city of Khar, government official Iqbal Khattak said. He said some security forces were wounded, but he would not say how many. Washington says the operation in Bajur - a rumored hiding place of al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden and other militant leaders - appears to have reduced violence across the border in Afghanistan. ...

Source: www.charlotteobserver.com --- 5 days ago
A wave of violence from Islamic extremists against politicians in Pakistan intensified Monday with a Suicide Bombing at the home of an opposition lawmaker that left at least 18 dead. The latest attack provided a further blow to the fragile hold of democracy in key anti-terror ally Pakistan, which is struggling to cope with an Islamist insurgency and with an economic crisis that has pushed the country to the brink of bankruptcy. Pakistan's security forces are fighting a fierce battle with Taliban militants in Bajur, a part of its Federally Administered Tribal Area that runs along the Afghan border, and in Swat, a valley in the northwest, after a short-lived policy of seeking peace deals with the extremists collapsed. An attacker walked into an open meeting that Member of Parliament Rasheed Akbar Niwani was holding in the courtyard of his home in the central town of Khar, in Punjab province, and blew himself up amid of throng of about 200. Some reports put the death toll as high as 25, while 53 were hurt, some critically. Niwani got away with minor leg injuries. Everything has turned black here," eyewitness Mohammad Ashraf told the Associated Press. "I am seeing body parts lying everywhere. There are many heads lying here. It is blood everywhere." Television pictures showed bodies roughly wrapped in cloth being hurriedly taken away on beds. Within the last week, two political leaders from Awami National Party, which leads the regio ...

Source: www.charlotteobserver.com --- 9 days ago
The U.N. declared the Pakistani capital unsafe for the children of its international staff Thursday and ordered them out, putting the once tranquil city on a par with Kabul and Somalia. Pakistan is under intense U.S. pressure to combat militants responsible for rising attacks at home and in neighboring Afghanistan. Its faltering efforts so far have been met with a blur of Suicide bombings that have killed nearly 1,200 people since July 2007, according to army statistics released this week. The U.N., which employs more than 2,000 people in Pakistan, including about 100 foreigners, has not been hit. However, the truck Bombing of Islamabad's Marriott Hotel last month, which killed 54 people, including three Americans and the Czech ambassador, prompted the world body as well as foreign missions to review security. Britain announced Wednesday it was repatriating its diplomats' children, and other countries may follow suit. Pakistan has long been a non-family posting for U.S. diplomatic staff. Under the new directive, U.N. expatriate staff will no longer be allowed to live with their children in Islamabad, the neighboring city of Rawalpindi or in Quetta, on the Afghan frontier. Much of the border region, including the city of Peshawar, is already off-limits for U.N. families. Until a spate of Suicide attacks this year, Islamabad, a leafy city of spacious villas at the foot of the Himalayas, had long been considered a safe and comfortab ...

Source: www.charlotteobserver.com --- 2 days ago
Bombings targeting police killed 10 people and wounded 14 in Pakistan's volatile northwest and the capital on Thursday - vivid reminders of the challenge facing the U.S.-allied country as its lawmakers pursue a national consensus on battling terrorism. One attack, an apparent Suicide car Bombing, occurred in a police complex in Islamabad. It wrecked an anti-terror squad building and wounded at least four police while lawmakers met elsewhere in the capital for a rare, private military briefing about domestic militancy. Meanwhile, a roadside bomb struck a prisoners' vehicle in the Dir region near Afghanistan and killed two police, four inmates and four children. Ten people were wounded, said Sher Bahadur Khan, a senior government official. Al-Qaida and Taliban militants have established bases in Pakistan's northwest near the Afghan border, and it is that region that bears the brunt of the violence in the country. But in recent weeks, the militants have repeatedly demonstrated their reach extends farther. In September, a massive Suicide truck Bombing in Islamabad killed 54 people and severely damaged the Marriott Hotel, a favorite spot for foreigners. Security has been beefed up since in the capital, and it was especially high Thursday for the parliament session. Police were investigating how the attacker breached security in the police complex. They were also looking into a potential link to an unknown man who delivered sweets to th ...

Source: www.earthtimes.org --- 20 days ago
Islamabad - Pakistan's top security official said Sunday that Taliban militants based in the country's tribal areas along the Afghan border are suspected of being behind the Marriott hotel Suicide Bombing in the capital Islamabad that killed 53 peopl... ...

Source: www.earthtimes.org --- 2 days ago
Islamabad - At least 23 people were killed and dozens more injured Friday in a Suicide Bombing during a gathering in Pakistan's tribal region along the Afghan border, officials said. The jirga, a meeting of some 500 of members of the Alikhel tribe wa... ...

Source: www.kansas.com --- 2 days ago
Bombings killed 10 people and wounded at least 14 in Pakistan on Thursday, including an attack in a police complex in the capital the same day lawmakers huddled for a private briefing on the militant threat facing the country. The deaths happened in the nation's volatile northwest, where al-Qaida and Taliban militants have established bases near the Afghan border. Four children, two police and four prisoners died when a roadside bomb exploded under a prison vehicle in the Dir region, government official Sher Bahadur Khan said. Initial reports indicated a school bus was caught in the blast, but others said the children were walking. Ten people were wounded. In Islamabad, an apparent Suicide car Bombing severely damaged an anti-terror squad building and wounded at least four police in the heavily guarded Police Lines neighborhood. The explosion occurred just moments after a man delivered candy to the facility and police were examining whether the events were linked. Some body parts were found that might belong to a Suicide bomber, Islamabad Police Chief Asghar Gardaizi said. ...